Improvement in covered dishes



s. W. 'BABBII'T.

Oov'ered'Dish.

No.199,772. Patented Jan. 29,1878.

N.PE1'ER& PHQTO LITH b GRAFHER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

s. WILLIAM BABBITT, or wnsr ,MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB TOwinooxsinvnn PLATE CoMPANmoF-sAMn PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT-1N COVERED 'D'ISFHEVS,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,772, dated annary29, 1878; application filed January 14, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S. WM. BABBITT, of West Meriden, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inCovered Dish; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of, this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a side view; Fig. 2, a vertical central section; andFig. 3,the three parts detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in articles or dishes for tableservice andother purposes, and particularly 'to that class of platedware in which a porcelain pan is introduced into the body of the platedportion, and its edge covered by a band extending over the edge both ofthe body and the said pan, and commonly called pudding-dishes, but partsof the invention are applicable to other dishes and uses; and theinvention consists in the construction and combination of parts, ashereinafter described, and more par ticularly recited in the claims.

For convenience of illustration, the invention is shown as applied to apudding-dish, and in which A represents the base or body, constructed toreceive. within it a porcelainlined pan, B. O the hoop or band, whichoverlaps both the body and the pan, so that the edge of both areconcealed, and the separa tion of the parts is not apparent.

In this class of dishes a cover is generally used in a single piece, andto simply sit on over the band 0 and to remove it, it must be entirelydetached from the band, thus making the dish in four parts.

In order to combine the cover with the band, and thereby practicallylessen the number of parts, there is a cover in two parts, D D, hingedat the center to a pintle or bar runningacross from one point of theband C to the opposite, and preferably this hinged point a is raised onthe said central or hinged line, causing the covers, when closed, to liein an inclined position, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. Thus the band andcover are made substantially one and the same, and'so that the dish maybe opened by raising either one or both covers; and a handle v where aportion of the band is broken awayto show the locking device. Byunlocking these parts they may be separated, as seen in Fig. 3; or whenlocked together the whole may be lifted as one article by taking hold ofthe handle.

In order to automatically open the covers, a post or guide, 6, iscentrally attached'to the cross-bar, and onto this a vertically-slidin ghandle, E, isplaced, and so as to move freely up and down thereon withincertain limits. From this handle E a connection, F, is made from eachside to the cover, and so that when the handle is raised the coverswill, by such connection, be drawn up, as seen in Fig. 2, to open thecover. This will occur in lifting the dish by the handle, so that theservant in passin g it will present it in an open condition.

When standing on the table it is desirable at times to sustain thecovers in their'open condition. To do this a notch, f, is made in thesleeve, and a correspondin gprojectingstud, h, on the post 6, and sothat when the handle and covers are raised, as seen in broken lines,Fig. 2, thehandle may be partially turned to bring the stud into thenotch f, and, there resting, support the handle and covers in thatcondition or, instead of the notch f, the I handle may be raisedentirely above the stud, and accomplish the same result.

The connectionbetween the handle and the covers may be made in variousways, as, for instance, it may be chains or rods; or the handle may beextended down to the covers, and makea simple hook engagement; or,instead of lifting the handle to open the covers it may be simplyrotated, the connection. of the covers being so that such rotation willact to raise the covers, as by worm and segment.

It is therefore to be understood that this invention is not limited tothe particular arrangement for lifting the covers shown in illustration.

.ner pan B, the band C, and a cover hinged thereto, with a lockingdevice between the said band and the body, substantially as described,and for the purpose ofsecuring the parts together.

3. In a covered dish, a divided cover, the two parts hinged permanentlyto the band, combined with a lifting-handle in connection with saidcovers, and so that by said handle the covers may be lifted,substantially as described. I S. WM. BABBITT.

Witnesses:

GnAs. H. SHAW, CHARLES E. Goonmcn.

